We couldn’t possibly feature all the excellent cake bakers and decorators in southern Maine, but here is contact information for several we wrote about, and didn’t, that offer cakes for special celebrations. In general, when ordering round cakes, an 8-in.-diameter cake serves about 10 people and a 10-in. cake serves 20. When ordering wedding cakes, […]
Peggy Grodinsky
Staff Writer
Peggy is the editor of the Food & Dining section and the books page at the Portland Press Herald. Previously, she was executive editor of Cook’s Country, a Boston-based national magazine published by America’s Test Kitchen. She spent several years in Texas as food editor at the Houston Chronicle. Peggy has taught food writing to graduate students at New York University and Harvard Extension School. She worked for seven years at the James Beard Foundation in New York and spent a year as a journalism fellow at the University of Hawaii. Her work has appeared in “Best of Food Writing” in 2017 and in “Cornbread Nation 4: The Best of Southern Food Writing” in 2008.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
Alison Hawthorne Deming weaves together a tale of fashion, fisheries and 5 generations of women
Set on Grand Manan, “A Woven World” is part memoir, part cultural history.
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You won’t miss bacon crumbles with this warm spinach salad with shiitakes
The salad gets heft and flavor from smoky shiitake mushrooms, sliced sun-dried tomatoes and a warm, tart vinaigrette.
Posted inFood, Recipes
This rice salad with greens and beans is a fast and filling dinner
If you have leftover rice on hand, you can make this filling salad in 15 minutes.
Posted inFood, Maine Gardener
Water wise: How to channel it during downpours and save it for a sunny day
Invaluable notes from a garden water expert to make every drop count.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Food
I tried one of Dolly Parton’s new cake mixes, and it got me out of my 9-to-5 funk
Dolly Parton’s “favorite” banana pudding cake was a sweet mood lifter, even if it wasn’t as tasty as it was pretty.
Posted inGreen Plate Special, Recipes
Green Plate Special: Homemade yogurt is as easy as ABC
Plus, making it yourself means bringing one less single-use plastic container into your kitchen.
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A vigorous examination of ‘Mr. NAACP,’ who passed as white
A. J. Baime recounts the extraordinary life of the NAACP’s Walter White who wrote late in life: “I am a Negro. My skin is white, my eyes are blue, my hair is blond. The traits of my race are nowhere visible upon me.”
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Three Maine restaurants emerge from a second winter of hardships with hope
Broken Arrow, Maine Street Steak & Oyster and Old Port Sea Grill take on a labor shortage and COVID surges during what’s always the slowest season with nothing to lean on but their will to survive.
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Kids learn about local foods, improve cooking skills, and help their peers
The six-week 4 Kids By Kids course culminates in a fundraising meal to fight food insecurity.